Drinking-faucet.



J. P. HEBNEY. DRINKING FAUGET. A'PPLICATION FILED DEG. 9, 1910.

WITNEssEs:

UNITED sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH I. HEENEY, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO M. H.FOUNDRY- AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OE BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, ACORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DRINKING-FAUCET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application filed December 9, 1910. Serial No. 596,493.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a middle vertical section taken through thefaucet', parts being in elevation; Fig. 2 is a top plan of the faucet;Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section Von the line 3-3 vof Fig. 1, looking up;and Fig. 4 is an elevation of the faucet.

The present inventionl is an improvement `on the hygienicdrinking-faucet forming the subject-matter of my pending application,Serial Number 574,940; and While having the same objects in view andpossessing the same advantages as the faucet of said pendingal'iplication, the present improvement contemplates certain additionaladvantages, notalily that of preventing the possibility ofaliuse of thefaucet by children and mischievous persons. Such abuse consists insealing up with the fingers the main discharge openinpr of the faucet,and driving the water through the small openings so as lo produceforcible streams of water which they play over other children andpersons, thereby diverting the faucet from its legitimate purpose. Thishandling of the faucet too is liable to deposit disease germs on thesurface of the cup and thus introduce them into the stream intended fordrinking.

The means by which the advantages just referred to are obtained will befully apparent from adetailed description of the, invention, which is asfollows-- Referring to the lrawings, 1 represents a pipe fitting throughwhich water under sutlicient hea-d is supplied to the faucet. The faucetirroper comprises a hollow member or cup 2 having a bottom inletpassage-way o communicating 'with the passage-way of the pipe.lt'y-Screwed into the inlet rr within the cup 2 `a holow post 4 on whichformed an annular nge 5 spaced from the inner wall of the cup, saidfiange being provided with a series of relief water-discharge ports Sfor a purpose presently to appear. The flange 7' is provided with a rimor wall 9 which is beaded over the edge of a porcelain or equivalenthood or bonnet 10, the latter forming with the screw-cap 7, a chamber 11across which the water is projected in` its discharge from the -cup 2,the relief ports 8 leading from said chamber. The screw-cap 7 isprovided with a cent-ral relatively large openiqg 12 bounded by a seriesof smaller or constricted ports or opening 13, the hood 10 beingprovided With a. similar series of large and small. discharge openings1.2', 13', posi- .tioned directly -over and in the path of dischargefrom the openings 12, 13. as show'n by the plain arrows in Fig. 1. Theobjecb of the small openings 13' is to preserve'the integrity ofthestream as a whole, discharged from thehood 10. the same as in my pendingapplication aforesaid. there being practically no spreading of thestreams issuing from the openings 1Q. 13. the water shooting acrossthechamber directly from the openings 12. 13. into and through theopenings 12', 13'; What little may lodge within the chamber'11. (if any)will trickle out through the relief ports 8.

In Fig-dattie cup or faucet is shown as it appears in act-ual operationwhen not molested. Should a mischievous person close the centraldischarge port 12' (and a partof the ports 13') with his finger in aneudea vor to secure a squirting stream through the remaining open portor ports 13. his purpose will bc frustratedhy the present improvement.because the increased arcas of the relief ports 8 will allowthe Waterchoked off atthe ports 152'. 13', to run out through said relief portsand no squirting stream can be obtained.

'l-lhis forth of drinking faucet. is admirable tori:-iustitutions suchas factories, schools, :md5 the like where the factory hands andpunlijls might seek amusementl in squirting streams of water upon theircompanions. l low member, the outer wall of the cap-piece ha vingacentral large opening surrounded by The faucet here shown `would notrespond to such abuse, and the practice would thus heet once stopped,since a closing of the discharge ports 12', 13, would-divert the waterdownward 'or toward the inlet end to the cup as shown by the featheredarrows inFig. l.

' Hating described'my invention, what I claim is2-ff.

1. A drinking faucet comprising a hollow member having an inlet orintake opening at one end, va chamber at the opposite en provided withan inner central large o en- .iiig and :i series of small openingsencirc ing the large opening for establishing c0minunication with thehollow member, and provided with a corresponding outer series'of .largeand small discharge openings in the path ofthe streams passing throughthe innerI openings, said discharge openings d1- recting the water 1n edirection fronti the .intake to the holloiv'm'einber, the chamber beingprovided with relief openings out of range oi the path of t-he streamspassing through the inner` openings into the chambei', said reliefopenings discharging toward the intake to the hollow member. f

2. A drinking faucet comprising a hollow member having an inlet orintake at one end for the Wateiga hollow cap-pieceat the op" A positeend overlfipping the walls of the hol- Gopies of this petent maybeobtained smaller openings, and the -inner wall having :i correspondingseries of openings opposite to the openings in the outer wall fordirecting the streams from .the hollow' member 'through vthe chamberandinto and through the outer opeiiingsLthe portions of the inner wall or'the hollow cap-piece overlapping the hollow member being provided withlrelief 'ports discharging toward the inlet tol the hollow member.

3. A drinking faucet comprising a cup provided with an intake for thewater, a

hollow sciew-capfopposite the intake intoy the chamber of which thewater from the 4cup initiallyr discharges, the outer wall' of.tlie'scrcw-cap being provided with discharge openings formingr a streamto be deliyered to Itheinoii'th of the drinken-'the inner wall beingprovided with relief ports for delivering the streams in a directionopposite to Athe direction of discharge of the drink supplyingopenings,'upon the total or partial sealing of ,the last named openings.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in presence o f twowitnesses.

' JOSEPH P. HEENEY.V

lvitnesses: 5

EMIL STAREK A. W. POWELL.

for ve oentsleaoh, 'by addressing the Commissioner of Zyllaten'tsi,v

' Washington, D. U. l

